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The actress says in a voiceover as walks into the ceremony: 'I know that I am young but I am ready for the great responsibility that lies before me.'

In her first role since Doctor Who, Jenna plays the British monarch from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 through to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert, played by Tom Hughes.

Making her grand entrance: The short teaser shows Victoria at her coronation in 1838, with Jenna dressed in full costume, wearing a replica of the Imperial State Crown and robes

Major role: Rufus Sewell is also seen briefly in the first teaser as Lord Melbourne, Victoria's first prime minister and close confidant

BAFTA-nominated actor Rufus Sewell is also seen briefly in the first teaser, with the actor, who has himself played a royal on screen in the 2003 TV drama Charles II: The Power and The Passion, cast as Lord Melbourne, Victoria's first prime minister and close confidant.

The pair's friendship became a popular source of gossip that threatened to destabilise the Government – angering both Tory and Whigs alike.

Victoria will begin with a 90-minute episode followed by seven one-hour episodes. The cast have been shooting scenes in Yorkshire since last autumn.

Anticipated: Victoria will begin with a 90-minute episode followed by seven one-hour episodes later this year

The series has been created and written by acclaimed novelist Daisy Goodwin, in her screenwriting debut, who will also serve as executive producer alongside Dan McCulloch (Indian Summers) and Damien Timmer (Poldark).

Torchwood star Eve Myles and The Sarah Jane Adventures actor Tommy-Lawrence Knight will also be joining the stellar line-up.

Speaking at the announcement of her role last year, Jenna gushed: 'I am delighted to be cast as Queen Victoria in this ambitious drama of her life. She is a vivid, strong, inspirational and utterly fascinating woman in British history and I can't wait to tell her story.'

Full of drama: In her first role since Doctor Who, Jenna plays the British monarch from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 through to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert

Politics, gossip and marriage: Queen Victoria's early reign

Victoria turned 18 on 24 May 1837. Less than a month later on 20 June 1837, her uncle William IV died at the age of 71, and she became Queen of the United Kingdom.

The British Empire was at the height of its power in Victoria's early reign, and she ruled over 450 million people, one quarter of the world’s population.

The United Kingdom though was already an established constitutional monarchy, with the sovereign holding little political power and Victoria's early years on the throne were spent developing her understanding of British politics. In the early part of her reign, she was influenced by two men.

At the time of her accession, the government was led by the Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne (played by Rufus Sewell in the series), who at once became a powerful influence on the politically inexperienced Queen.

Victoria's reliance upon Lord Melbourne increased her support of the Whig party, and Melbourne ensured that the Queen was surrounded by ladies-in-waiting from notable Whig families, a situation that would lead to the so-called 'bedchamber crisis' after Melbourne, briefly, resigned in 1839.

While the Queen's intimate friendship with Melbourne was the subject of much gossip, her reputation also suffered in 1839 when one of the court's ladies in waiting, Lady Flora Hastings was falsely accused of becoming pregnant by Sir John Conroy, a man the Queen openly despised. When the matter became a public scandal, the Queen was accused of spreading the false rumours and her early popularity with the public was severely dented.

Victoria had met her future husband Albert at the age of 17 before ascending to the throne, when her uncle played matchmaker between the two cousins. According to Victoria's diary, she enjoyed Albert's company from the moment they met, but the future Queen decided that she was too young to marry.

In October 1839 Albert paid another visit, and just five days after he had arrived at Windsor, the Queen proposed.

They were married on 10 February 1840, in the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace, London, with the besotted Queen writing in her diary of their wedding: 'I NEVER, NEVER spent such an evening!!! MY DEAREST DEAREST DEAR Albert ... his excessive love & affection gave me feelings of heavenly love & happiness I never could have hoped to have felt before!'

Victoria desired that Albert receive the title King Consort, but was met by opposition from British officials who refused to see a German prince assume any part of the sovereign power.

Prince Albert though was to become a hugely influential adviser to the Queen, with his interests lying in the arts, science, trade and industry. He established the Great Exhibition of 1851, the profits from which helped to establish the famed South Kensington museums in London.

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